🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Watsonhead Wind Farm
Lanarkshire

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2
turbines
8.4 MW
MW total
4.2 MW
per turbine
149.38 m
tip height

📍 2 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.77026 N · 3.82882 W.

Watsonhead Wind Farm

2 turbines · operational · Lanarkshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionLanarkshire
Turbines2
Installed capacity8.4 MW
Turbine capacity4.2 MW
Tip height149.38 m
Operator (or applicant)Green Cat Renewables
Turbine manufacturerEnercon
Turbine modelE138
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♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

→ ~204620182020202220242026today1234
  1. 1Feb 2018 — Application submitted
  2. 2Feb 2020 — Permission granted
  3. 3Feb 2023 — Permission expired
  4. 4Oct 2023 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 15144.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 24 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2023. The scheme has been operating for about 3 years. That works out at 4.2 MW per turbine on average.

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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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